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Category: Intellect, Judgement

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1. "A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife!"

Anon.

Quotations about: Marriage

2. "It is not at all simple to understand the simple."

Eric Hoffer

3. "I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Youth and Age

4. "The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. "

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Success and Fame

5. "Understanding is a two-way street."

Eleanor Roosevelt

6. "Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."

George Savile

7. "An open mind does not always require an open mouth."

Anon.

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

8. "Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

Gene Fowler

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

9. "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

10. "A mind is like a parachute. It doesn`t work if it`s not open."

Frank Zappa

11. "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William James, "Principles of Psychology"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

12. "The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number."

Alexis Carrel

Quotations about: Science and Technology

13. "Most open minds should be closed for repair."

Wilson Mizner

14. "Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

15. "A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

16. "Failure is the only opportunity to begin more intelligently."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

17. "Imagination is intelligence having fun."

George Scialabba

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

18. "The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living."

Charles F. Kettering

19. "Never hate your enemies. It clouds your judgement."

Mario Puzo, "The Godfather"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

20. "An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

Albert Camus, "Notebooks"

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21. "It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

Alfred North Whitehead

22. "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Woman and Man

23. "Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well."

Peter Ustinov

24. "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

Albert Einstein

25. "Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Memory

26. "Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding."

François de La Rochefoucauld

27. "Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."

Immanuel Kant

28. "The hardest thing to understand is why we can understand anything at all."

Albert Einstein

29. "The intellectual world is divided into two classes - dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other."

Miguel de Unamuno

30. "There is a physical weakness which stems from mental ability, and a mental weakness which comes from physical ability."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

31. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

32. "Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

33. "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgement to hold their tongues."

Jean de La Bruyere

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

34. "Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

35. "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

Rabindranath Tagore

36. "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Love -:- Reality and Imagination

37. "There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense."

Miguel de Unamuno

38. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw

39. "If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Various

40. "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it`s the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

41. "Everyone blames his memory; no one blames his judgment."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Memory

42. "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

43. "Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

44. "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

45. "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Question and Problem

46. "Intellect is invisible to the man who has none."

Arthur Schopenhauer

47. "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."

Aldous Huxley

48. "If intelligence had anything to do with the voting process, then all the smart people would vote the same."

Anon.

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

49. "Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

50. "If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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